On 06/12/2017 08:34 PM, John Andersen wrote:
On 06/12/2017 06:26 PM, George from the tribe wrote:
On new Dell Inspiron 15 5576, the touchpad stops working a few seconds after reaching the display manager. In fact, what I have figured out is, that on reboot, if I use the mouse and don't touch the touchpad, it will work. Once I use the touchpad, it lasts about 3 seconds and then stops working.
I found this message in the journalctl, and the fault time exactly corresponds with when the touchpad stopped working:
Pretty sure this is by design.
If you have a mouse, the touchpad can become a liability. (cursor jumping from palm brushes go unnoticed and typists hork over documents.
A lot of desktop environments now insert a capability to automatically turn off the touchpad if a mouse is detected. Others only disable the touchpad while typing and for X milliseconds after typing stops.
That DE you love to hate (KDE) has this as a choice Settings / configure desktop / input devices / touchpad / enable-disable
I've actually tamed the touchpad with syndaemon -d -k -R -p /usr/local/tmp/david/syndaemon.pid You can change the idle time with -i, but I've found the default works as well as just about anything else (it's between 1 & 2 sec.) With KDE, I just load it via the Autostart folder. I write the PID to the lock file and actually call syndaemon from a script that checks the PID to prevent multiple launches. -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org